Magic Trackpad

The Magic Trackpad is a multi-touch trackpad produced by Apple Inc. Announced on July 27, 2010, it is agnate to the trackpad begin on the accepted MacBook ancestors of laptops, admitting 80% larger. The trackpad is absolutely accordant with Macintosh computers active Mac OS X Snow Leopard versions 10.6.4 and college with acomputer application update, as able-bodied as Windows 7, Windows XP, and Windows Vista in Apple's Boot Camp with an added accessory driver. It is additionally able of assuming in a basal accommodation back commutual with a Windows computer or a Macintosh after the all-important software

Release and reception

Announced on July 27, 2010,1 aboriginal reviews of the trackpad acclaimed its architecture but not its price. CNET analyst Scott Stein wrote: "Apple's $69 Bluetooth accessory is minimalist and not decidedly cheap"; "We're not abiding we'd canal our abrasion and use the Magic Trackpad, but it's a bunched band-aid for the touch-addicted."3 Macworld additionally accepted the trackpad's architecture affinity with the Apple Wireless Keyboard: "The Magic Trackpad is the aforementioned acme and bend of affection as the Apple Wireless Keyboard, authoritative them a acceptable fit, in agreement of admeasurement and style

Operating system support

Apple's Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Trackpad Amend 1.0 includes the appropriatecomputer application to use Magic Trackpad. This amend additionally installs a Trackpad System Preferences area for configuring the Magic Trackpad on Intel-based Mac desktop computers that abutment Mac OS X v10.6.4 and later.6

Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista application Boot Camp accoutrement beneath Mac OS X.7

Basic functions accessible on a Windows computer or a Macintosh after the all-important software.3

Hacked/extracted from Boot Camp built-in Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 drivers, 32-bit and 64-bit8 (not accurate by Apple)

Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10